[rescue] Terminal servers (was: Just a thought - what would be a good starter SPARC system these days?)

[Steve Sandau]

The box that ran that was taken down a year ago, so the kernel that it
was running was at least 3 years old. I was able too change the IP
without rebooting, but not the kernel. ;)

I read recently that alphas never had that problem. Haven't had any
newer boxes up for that long. 90 Days or so is about average; we upgrade
hardware, kernels, etc.

Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:04:11PM -0400, Steve Sandau wrote:
> > I had a Linux box (a 386!) with a Boca 4-port connected to 4 VT-100
> > terminals. Worked great, no problems, had it up, straight, no reboots,
> > nothing, for well over 2 years. Uptime on a PC running LInux rolls over
> > at 490-something days, so I had to scroll through the logs to find out
> > how long it had really been up. Worked great, though.
> 
> I didn't think that it has had that problem in quite a number of years
> now.  Linux should be fully capable of registering uptimes in the years,
> if anyone ever got a linux server to stay up that long. I wish I could see
> uptimes anywhere near that good.  The best I've had yet was 90 days, then
> a power storm dropped the power.
> 
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